Cambodia seems to have gradually embraced Tantric Buddhism starting arounf the 10th century
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The 9th-11th C Indian Pala dynasty evangelically exported Tantric Buddhism to whole Buddhist world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pala_Empire …
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Interestingly, the Khmer seem to have adopted Tantric Shiva worship before they mixed it with Tantric Buddhism
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I am having a hard time figuring out the significance of those 8th c. Khmer Maitreya statues.
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Well, your research is very interesting… in general, I think there’s been MUCH more cultural diffusion than usually recognizd
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I agree, though determining the significance of the mixing is difficult
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Yup! True even today when the process is obvious everywhere… but what its effect is in any particular case… that’s obscure
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